[VHFcontesting] Rover Data

[frank bechdoldt]

In response to the earlier posts

 

Of course the limited rover is going to expand because of the lower impact of grid circling has on this group,  traditional (classic) is dropping because of the poor fix and follow through to get to the root of the issue of two different roving styles competing in 3 categories without really addressing the difference in roving behavior.  

 

For now on a small group will win all 3 roving categories when they choose to work each other for most of their QSOs and multipliers.  The only way to compete is to copy this behavior and do it slightly better.

 

I do not participate anymore in this.

I sold everything above 432 except 1.3 ghz.

I sold most of the amps and dishes.

 

What's the point of working so hard to hand out high band contacts to the folks at home when I'm going to get trounced by a dozen of lunch box stations owned by one ham working each other line of site  across a field that happens to have a grid corner on it to post a score exponentially higher than a fella that hauls his stuff up to mountain tops, and spends hours trying to eek out a 400 mile QSO.

 

The ARRL has created the biggest disincentive for anyone to take the high bands out and work stations they can not see with their own eyeballs by continuing the status Quo and continuing to ignore the previous VUAC recommendations on attempting to separate the two styles of roving.  

 

 

I won't beat this to death, it's the ARRL's baby and if the measure of value of spectrum is creating QSOS in repeated line of site contacts done with tactical skills of a synchronized swim team, then I have a different perspective of value.  

 

k3uhf

 
 		 	   		  
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